Creativity in Fifth-Grade Science Students: The Effects of Two Patterns of Instruction

Penick, John E.

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 13, 4, 307-314, Jul 76

Investigated was growth in creativity under two different teacher behavioral strategies (student-structured and teacher-structured learning). Results indicated that students in a nondirective, student-structured science class made significant gains in figural creativity with no loss or gain in student verbal creativity. (BT)